SHORT FILMS BLOCK
SHOWTIME: Friday July 22nd at 12 PM
An Island Drifts
Director: Vivian Ip | Country: Singapore | Running Time: 18 minutes
Synopsis: Set in Singapore, a young teacher presses for the truth from a maladjusted student, the act leads to devastating results, and they suffer the ignominy of losing everything that matters to them. The story holds a mirror up to society, where a mistake can derail a life in an overly pressurized world.
The Han Flows
Director: Park Seung Chan |
Country: Korea |
Running Time: 10 minutes
Synopsis: A woman who broke up with her boyfriend, a man who was scammed by a friend. They have gathered in the Han River to end their lives.
I want to hear the word on the street
Director: Yuki Takashima |
Country: Japan | Running Time: 15 minutes
Synopsis: A director for a television program conducts on-the-street interviews in Shibuya that has lost its liveliness because of the coronavirus. However, the people on the street are not really giving him the "comments he is looking for." The director in turn gets anxious as he is driven into a corner.
The Man of the Terms of Service
Director: Yuki Takashima | Country: Japan | Running Time: 13 minutes
New editor Onoda is summoned by her higher-up to the house of the novelist Hoshi whom she admires. But what he was writing there was not a novel.
Misdelivered
Director: Jaehyeok Kwak | Country: Korea | Running Time: 10 minutes
Hee-joo goes out to find the wrong address before moving. Her daily life is cracked.
Spider
WOMEN’S SHOWCASE FILM
Director: Minami Goto
Country: Japan; Running Time: 8 minutes
A young woman descends onto a household seeking revenge for her sister’s attack and is presented with two possible targets - both protesting their innocence once a battle commences.
Veils
WOMEN’S SHOWCASE FILM
Director: Erika Nakayama | Country: Japan | Running Time: 17 minutes
Ayumi Tani, an owner of a small bookstore, and Sayaka Murakami, a call center worker, are a lesbian couple living together. While they feel somewhat stifled by the fact that they are part of the LGBTQ community, they are looking forward to having a wedding-style photo shoot to celebrate their five-year anniversary. Sayaka finds a site for searching photo salons advertising “LGBTQ available" and enthusiastically makes an inquiry, but one photo salon’s disappointing response angers them. Ayumi decides to go confront the photo salon in person, even though Sayaka tries to stop her.
